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Blender preview in video editor is really slow, barely using my computer's resources
I set the memory cache limit to 12gb, I'm running on ssd, I even set the resolution to 5% yet blender is ungodly slow. I'm only getting around 5 fps and blender starts to lag heavily when I start to ...
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Image Overlay out of Sync with Timeline after Rendering
I am trying to overlay some images onto a video at certain times. When I watch the preview the images are showing up at the right time, but after rendering the images are appearing before they are ...
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How do you crop a video in the current Blender Video Editor?
How do you correctly crop a video in blender and remove all resulting blank space that appears along the side of the video?
I have already applied the "Crop" and "Offset" options ...
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How to keep audio and video synced rendering an animation? [duplicate]
I am doing a voice over for my video. It’s suppose to be my first dev log. So my audio and video is completely separate. Why does the video render faster than the audio, how do I fix this? I am using ...
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Make Video Sequence Editor (VSE) playback in real time? [duplicate]
How do I make the Video Sequence Editor (VSE) playback in real time?
I have some 4K video clips that I want to edit, however, I'm unable to do so because when I hit play I get about 2 FPS playback (...
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Color management affetcs video sequencer
I try to match my scene to a reference video (which I have loaded into the Video sequence editor) by changing settings in the Color management tab such as contrast, exposure or gamma. However, this ...
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How to import footage in the VSE for optimal playback and organization?
How to import footage in VSE for optimal playback and organization, using proxies and workarounds?
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Easily Cropping a Video
I recorded a video at 1080x1920px resolution, and wanted to crop this video, by removing a little bit from the top and a lot from the bottom.
I went about it by -
Importing the video (drag and drop)
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Video editing transform strip offset and crop in Preview window
Is there a gizmo that lets me transform a strip position and crop directly in the Preview window?
This would be much easier than using the side pane menus.
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Invisibility Effect (Dual-Video Overlay)
gif: https://i.sstatic.net/frSde.jpg (excerpt from https://vimeo.com/101172118)
Wondering if this is possible in Blender. Is it masking and chromakeying? Not really sure what to call it: two moving ...
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Blender VSE Audio out-of-sync when animation (video) is rendered
Ok, so I found out that Blender has this really cool video-editing interface and I was beginning to love it. Until, I created this awesome project composition and when I exported the animation as a ...
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How do I know a details about video codec used by Blender?
When I do render animation I can choose a "Video Codec". Is that codec provided by Blender app, OS or is installed with some external app? How can verify what have been used?
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Importing .mov files in blender sequencer is very laggy
I have seen a couple other people ask this question but I have yet to find an answer. When importing an mov file into the blender video sequence editor, I find that the program becomes extremely laggy ...
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Why does my rendered video not animate?
I have used Blender to generate a video clip using H264 and the clip works perfectly, however I need to add audio and some titles, so I have re-imported the clip into the video editor and added the ...
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Video Editing: What is the diff. between Sequence Render Animation & Render Animation?
Good day,
I started using Blender v2.82a a week ago exclusively for Video Editing. I have seen a few tutorials but the following query has not been addressed yet.
Aside from being faster and ...
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Blender 2.82 video editor stopped rendering mov video files
I have been working on a music video using an mp3 track and both mov and mp4 video clips.
About half way through the project, and after I already rendered parts of the video successfully, I tried to ...
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What are these time units smaller than seconds: 1/60ths of a second
I am using Blender to edit videos. I see strip time units listed with three colon separators, like: HH:MM:SS:??. So, what are those smallest units? 1/60 of a second? 1/100th of a second. Or should the ...
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How do I animate an image in the Video Sequence Editor to match the underlying video?
I'm new to the program. In the video editor, is there an easy way to move an added image smoothly in one direction that it will be synchronous with the base video?
I tried splitting the image into ...
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How to play multiple tracks in video sequencer?
I am a beginner, so it seems to be a simple question. I have 2 tracks in video sequencer. I have added transformation to each of them so that they do not overlap. When I play animation, I see only one ...
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Video renders look pixelated
Ive been having this problem that my MP4 renders look chopped in final render.
I cant find the solution
This is in the render screen:
This is in the final render
Hey thanks for trying to help.
I ...
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How do I set FPS if I don't know what it is?
I recorded a video on my Galaxy Tab E 9.6" (a samsung tablet) and dragged it into the blender video editor. The properties of the video (on windows 8.1) says that it has a frame rate of 30 FPS. I set ...
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How to overlay Alpha masked image over finished Video without re-rendering the whole track?
How can an alpha masked image (PNG with alpha) be overlayed over an already finished video footage?
I have a filmed (not rendered) Video footage with approx 40.000 Frames. Over the first 200 frames, ...
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Text Effect creates Transparent Background
I am trying to figure out how to use the text effect. Basically, all I'm doing is selecting a clip and then adding an effect. When doing this, there is transform and a handful of other ones. But ...
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How do I correct input videos that are flipped upside down in blender video edit mode
I just decided to give blender a try as a video editing tool. I have around 60 small clips that I want to mix together. I took these with my phone. The videos show correctly in other video players ...
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How do you work with low-res footage and render with high-res footage in the video editor?
It is choppy using 1080p footage on my computer. I would like to downscale everything beforehand to even 320 x 180, do filters and picture in picture and have it applied later to the big files for ...
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Blender 2.8. Render to video file with audio from Video Editing section
Blender 2.8. On Ubuntu 19.10
Being in the "Video Editing" section.
There are have a couple of spides + audio files.
I want to render to video file.
I do choose the video, format, container, codecs, ...
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Dynamically change size of image overlay in video editor
I am trying to add a logo (over a video) that grows during the video at a steady rate. I am able to position and overlay the video where I need it with the Transform tool but I can't find a method to ...
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Video Colors Washed Out On Export
Export png sequences. Composite them together in new Blender file with audio.
Export as FF-MPEG H.264. Colors come out all washed out and yellow in all media players.
Import exported video file ...
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how to speed up a video sequence in blender 2.8?
How to speed up a sequence using the video editor in blender 2.8? All tutorials I find online use older versions of blender.
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How do I show the video preview?
I was assembling a bunch of screen recordings into a single video using Blender's "Video Editing" mode (which I've done several times before) when I accidentally clicked something and made the video ...
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How do you animate Speed Control in Video editing (and slow down a clip gradually)? - Blender 2.8
So I'm having significant problems animating a video clips speed control.
I've watched tutorials and searched for answers, but they don't address my issues.
After:
- select clip, and adding effect ...
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How to export PNG image sequence as GIF with transparency? [duplicate]
I’m trying to export an animated logo for my website.
I have the PNG image sequence with alpha channel ready to go. I can’t find a way to export or turn my image sequence into a GIF sequence (with ...
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How do I export clip as video? [duplicate]
I'm brand new to Blender. Had used KDenlive for video editing a couple times, but it wouldn't handle the large file (30 minutes) I'm working with now. I keep web-searching & keep finding adjacent ...
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How to synch audio with video when both tracks are from same source?
I am using the VSE in Blender 2.80 on Windows 10 to add cards to an existing video in MP4 format that is about 20 minutes long. I placed my cards and have chosen the following settings:
These are the ...
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Blender is only adding about half of a video? [duplicate]
The weirdest thing seems to be happening, I am trying to add 3 videos to blender VSE, for this sake we'll call them 1.mp4 2.mp4 and 3.mp4.
Each of these videos is exactly 14 seconds long and within ...
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difficulty playing back in VSE
I'm new to blender. I imported my videoclip (1080p, 60 FPS). It's a relatively short clip but I ran into two issues:
1) Playback is incredibly choppy, though it's much faster on Kdenlive. Is this ...
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Fading Text In and Out - Video Sequence Editor
I'm having difficulty getting text in my video to fade in and out. Currently, if I add text, it simply pops up without any transition.
I've attempted doing something similar to fading video clips in ...
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Convert PNG Sequence as Moving Object
Can you convert PNG Sequence around 200 Frame as plane on Blender ? The cases is, i wanna cast the shadow of of my png sequence using one light to curtain 3d model , the image i attach is the closest ...
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Adding Borders to a Video (Letterbox Effect)
This is my first post, so please forgive me if I make any mistakes regarding tags.
I've been attempting to add a letterbox border to a video in order to give it a more "cinematic" look, but I've ...
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Blender won't respect video alpha
I've exported a video in Davinci Resolve (Container: Quicktime, Codec:DNxHR) which is a codec that is alpha approved. But when i import the alpha video into blender, blender for some reason doesn't ...
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Video rotated after importing it for motion tracking
I'm importing a video file for motion tracking, that has been shot on a phone. If I open it with Windows Media Player or After Effects it's not rotated, but it is when I import it to Blender. Any help?...
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How to resample a video clip?
I have 30fps, 1440dpi car Dashcam footage but desired action is far away. Would like to resample to 720 or 360dpi 30fps, w/o loss of pixels & only use part of resulting video (crop?) that contains ...
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Some imported footage has poor contrast and saturation
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I have some footage directly from my camera (.mov videos) which looks just fine after importing it into Blender. But other videos and images have noticeably reduced contrast and saturation ...
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Trying to add a scene in the video editing mode I get "No Items Available" [Blender 2.8]
I'm trying to add a scene created in the 3D viewport to the video editor.. this works in Blender 2.79, but in Blender 2.8 it doesn't work.
When I try to add a scene created in the 3D viewport to the ...
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Blender 2.8 Video editing - annotation
Do you know if you can annotate a video in Blender?
I have tried to d + mouse draw, but I need to control when the grease pen stroke is shown.
I am trying to add circles to a video sequence, to ...
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Is there a way to loop a movie that is also transformed in Blender's VSE?
I'm attempting to loop an .mkv while also modifying the video with a Transform strip. Here are the details:
Video is 93 frames
Total desired frames for looped video is 705
The Transform strip scales ...
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why is the video sequencer so slow with 4k files 2.79 [duplicate]
currently trying to figure out blender's video editing using Mikeycal Meyers video series and it is all seeming to work but no matter what preferences I change the sequencer responds and plays back ...
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[Video Sequence Editor]Blender only using 6% of cpu max appears to be performing the work in a single threaded manner
I am trying to render a raw screen capture video using blender and the rendering process is extremely slow. It is taking about 4hrs+ to render 35mins of footage. I see that blender is only utilizing ...
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My render layers are gone (Video Sequence Editor)
I tried to render my Video by using "Render Animation", but it just gave me an error that said "All render layers are disabled". I tried to enable them, but it appears that there are no render layers. ...
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Using blender as a video editor, what's the best way to add a box around part of the video?
What's the best way of how would I should go about adding something as simple as this?
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